From the NZ Herald, yesterday:
KiwiRail bosses will front a select committee meeting next week where they are expected to face pressing questions about the future of Interislander’s Cook Strait ferries.
Plans to replace the existing fleet of three ferries with two new purpose-built mega ferries were thrown into disarray before Christmas.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis called time on a string of cost blowouts fearing she would be left with a “completely open chequebook”had she agreed to pour money into the mega ferry project.
Willis refused a request for $1.47 billion of additional funding leaving the scheme dead in the water.
The 1.2 million living in South Island and dependent on the Cook Strait ferries to get to the capital Wellington, face no ferry service at all but no politician seems to be getting blamed.
Talking-up Scotland 
I’m highly surprised TVNZ’s Editor, Douglas McWeeshite hasn’t had a talk with his distant cousin Besuited McWeeshite on how best to ‘rip an new one’ in the NZ government’s failure… “CalMac bosses quizzed by islanders at summit” is how BBC Scotland approached it despite Calmac vastly exceeding the NZ target of arrival…
Perhaps Douglass McWeeshite might consider using ‘summit’ or summat else in reporting rather than simply holding a meeting – Thousands of mainland Kiwis could have been starving for months without anyone being aware of it, tragic really…..
OT – Bloody Poms never understood what Interislander meant, which is why the passenger manifest grew as the population rocketed, stroller sales went mad, and the ferries struggled…
Only a few of the pervs were caught in Operation Zip by the Fuzz, most of the bastards escaped on small boats to resume a career in British politics…
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John, it’s Over a Week since I have received Any Talking Up Scotland messages!
Is there a Problem?
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